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          Bill No:  SB 552
          Author:   Kelley (R)
          Amended:  2/22/00
          Vote:     21

            
           ALL PRIOR SENATE VOTES NOT RELEVANT

          ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  77-0, 7/6/00 (Passed on Consent) See last  
          page for vote
           

           SUBJECT  :    County water authorities

           SOURCE  :     San Diego County Water Authority

           
           DIGEST  :     Assembly Amendments  deleted the Senate version,  
          which required the  Metropolitan Water District of Southern  
          California to submit specified reports to the appropriate  
          policy committees of the Legislature on its Eastside  
          Reservoir Project and its Inland Feeder Project.

          This bill now authorizes county water authorities to sell  
          hydroelectric power generated by the authority to the Power  
          Exchange.

           ANALYSIS  :     Background and purpose  .  The Power Exchange  
          (PX) (a creation of the 1996 electrical industry  
          deregulation and restructuring) is a non-profit, non-public  
          entity intended to provide an open, efficient and  
          competitive auction of electrical power to meet customers'  
          electricity demands.  The PX is not specifically designated  
          as one of the entities to which water authorities can sell  
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          power.  Currently, all county water authorities are  
          authorized to "provide, sell and deliver hydroelectric  
          power to the State, any public agency, private corporation  
          or any other person or entity or combination thereof."


          The San Diego County Water Authority (SDWA) is planning to  
          build an Emergency Storage Project (ESP), consisting of a  
          new reservoir near the unincorporated community of  
          Olivenhain and an interconnection-including a pumping plant  
          and tunnels-to an existing reservoir (Lake Hodges).  The  
          project will produce excess hydroelectric power that the  
          SDWA wishes to sell to the PX and thus help defray  
          construction costs for the ESP.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Appropriation:  No   Fiscal Com.:  Yes    
          Local:  No


           SUPPORT  :   (Verified  7/7/00)

          San Diego County Water Authority (source)
          Regional Council of Rural Counties

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  
          AYES:  Aanestad, Ackerman, Alquist, Aroner, Ashburn,  
            Baldwin, Bates, Battin, Baugh, Bock, Brewer, Briggs,  
            Calderon, Campbell, Cardenas, Cardoza, Cedillo, Corbett,  
            Correa, Cox, Cunneen, Davis, Dickerson, Ducheny, Dutra,  
            Firebaugh, Florez, Frusetta, Gallegos, Granlund, Havice,  
            Honda, House, Jackson, Keeley, Knox, Kuehl, Leach,  
            Lempert, Leonard, Longville, Lowenthal, Machado, Maddox,  
            Maldonado, Margett, Mazzoni, McClintock, Migden, Nakano,  
            Olberg, Oller, Robert Pacheco, Rod Pacheco, Papan,  
            Pescetti, Reyes, Romero, Runner, Scott, Shelley,  
            Steinberg, Strickland, Strom-Martin, Thompson, Thomson,  
            Torlakson, Villaraigosa, Vincent, Washington, Wayne,  
            Wesson, Wiggins, Wildman, Wright, Zettel, Hertzberg


          TSM:kb  8/8/00   Senate Floor Analyses 

                         SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  SEE ABOVE








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